HEYDT’s multimedia praxis redefines the boundaries between materiality and immateriality, analog and digital, permanence and ephemerality. By layering augmented reality (AR) animations onto handcrafted physical assemblages, HEYDT creates immersive hybrid experiences that destabilize representations and dissolve the fixity of visually figured realities. Combining analog photography, found objects, glitch aesthetics, and kinetic elements, her work interrogates how technological mediation reshapes memory, identity, and spatiality. Filtered through postmodern critique and parodic humor, HEYDT’s practice overlays ephemeral digital transformations onto enduring material backdrops, reanimating static nostalgia and exposing the fragility of constructed narratives. The resulting dialectic between the Real and the Imaginary critiques the seamless fantasies of technological transcendence while amplifying the impermanence of memory. HEYDT’s AR-driven works provoke meditations on the porous boundaries between physical and digital strata, merging real and virtual experiences in novel spatial configurations. By confronting the performative nature of reality, she reclaims AR as a tool for critical reflection, imagining alternative futures and challenging normative perceptions in a world where the material and virtual are increasingly intertwined.